Table of Contents - February / March 2008

Features

• Elliott Yamin
  Mary Milewski chronicles the meteoric rise of one of American Idol’s most successful also-rans, singing sensation Elliott Yamin. She follows Yamin’s journey as he takes to the road to launch his performing career and push for greater diabetes awareness.

Columns

• My Own Injection

• My Side of the Meter

Living Well

• Halle Berry's Miracle

• ADA Approves Low-Carb Diets
  Mary Milewski chronicles the meteoric rise of one of American Idol’s most successful also-rans, singing sensation Elliott Yamin. She follows Yamin’s journey as he takes to the road to launch his performing career and push for greater diabetes awareness.

• How I Developed "Mad Eye"
  Laura Plunkett discusses how the urgency of managing a child’s diabetes often imbues parents with magical eyesight and powerful new senses.

• Society Wants Kids to Be Fat!
  Does the consumer environment conspire to make kids fat? It sure looks like it.

• It's Not Bad To Be Double blind
  Why double-blind tests are science’s "gold standard" for assuring the accuracy and reliability of drug and treatment tests.

• Cruise the Caribbean With Olympian Gary Hall
  A low-cost cruise next December with plenty of people in the same (diabetic) boat could be a great way to cure winter blues.

• What You Should Know About Type 2 Medications

• An Appeal to Insulin Manufacturers!
  As readers relate their potentially fatal doses of the wrong insulin, Editor-in-Chief Scott King throws a challenge at insulin manufacturers: Start coloring your bottles.

• Clinical Trials Ignore Too Much
  Drug trials often ignore other outcomes, including quality of life, in focusing solely on blood sugar control.

• Resources for Mastering Low Blood Sugar
  How "hypo-drills" can save a spouse’s life.

• Shouldn't Everything Just Click?
  An interview with Amylin’s Craig Eberhard.

• Continuous Monitoring is Here!
  How much does the Dexcom CGM device cost?

• Resources for Mastering Foot Care
  Birgitta Rice gives sound advice on diabetic foot care.

• After All These Years
  Gertrude "Blondie" Fran, 93, has lived with type 2 diabetes for more than 40 years, attributing her success in managing it to her diabetologist son-in-law, Dr. Aaron L. Vinik, and her love of music and books.

Technology Today

• Up & Pumping
  We asked what improvements you want to see in insulin pumps and you answered – in one of the heaviest responses we’ve ever enjoyed to an editor’s query.

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